BOOKS RECEIVED.--_On the Archaic Mode of expressing Numbers in English, Saxon, Friesic, &c._, by E. Thomson, Esq.; a learned and ingenious tract, written originally for insertion in "N. & Q.," but which fact ought not to prevent our speaking of it in the terms which it deserves.--_A Few Words in Reply to the Animadversions of the Rev. Mr. Dyce on Mr. Hunter's "Disquisition on the Tempest," 1839, and his "New Illustrations of the Life, Studies, and Writings of Shakspeare," 1845, &c._ A short but interesting contribution to Shakspearian criticism, by one who has already done good service in the same cause. If we cannot agree with Mr. Hunter in all that he seeks to establish, we can admire his knowledge of Elizabethan literature, and appreciate the spirit in which he writes.--_The Antiquary._ This is the first number of a small work consisting of reprints of proclamations, curious advertisements from early newspapers, and such odd matters as paint more forcibly than the gravest historian, the colours of the times.
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.
THE COMPLAYNTS OF SCOTLAND. 8vo. Edited by Leyden. 1804.
SHAKSPEARE'S PLAYS. Vol. V. of Johnson and Steeven's edition, in 15 vols. 8vo. 1739.
CIRCLE OF THE SEASONS. 12mo. London, 1828. (Two Copies.)
JONES' ACCOUNT OF ABERYSTWITH. Trevecka, 8vo. 1779.
M. C. H. BROEMEL'S FEST-TANZEN DER ERSTEN CHRISTEN. Jena, 1705.
COOPER'S ACCOUNT OF PUBLIC RECORDS. 8vo. 1832. Vol. I.
PASSIONAEL EFTE DAT LEVENT DER HEILIGEN. Basil, 1522.
LORD LANSDOWNE'S WORKS. Vol. I. Tonson, 1736.
JAMES BAKER'S PICTURESQUE GUIDE TO THE LOCAL BEAUTIES OF WALES. Vol. I. 4to. 1794.
WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY. Vol. II. 4to. 1832.
WARNER'S SERMONS. 2 Vols. Longman, about 1818.
AUTHOR'S PRINTING AND PUBLISHING ASSISTANT. 12mo., cloth, 1842.
SANDERS' HISTORY OF SHENSTONE IN STAFFORDSHIRE. J. Nichols, London. 1794. Two Copies.
THEOBALD'S SHAKSPEARE RESTORED. 4to. 1726.
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OUR EIGHTH VOLUME. _We avail ourselves of the opportunity afforded by the commencement of a new Volume, to state that our attention has been called to the sharp and somewhat personal tone of several of the recent contributions to "N. & Q.," and which, we are reminded, is the more striking from the marked absence of anything of that character in our earlier Volumes. We are perhaps ourselves somewhat to blame for this, from our strong indisposition to exercise our editorial privilege of omission. Our notice of the subject will, we are sure, be sufficient to satisfy our contributors of the inconvenience which must result to themselves as well as to us from the indulgence in too great license of the pen. We know that when men write_ currente calamo, _words and phrases are apt to escape, the full application of which is not observed, until, as Charles Lamb said, "print proves it;" but being conscious that, when treating on the subjects with which we deal, no one would willingly write anything with design to give offence, we shall in future "play the tyrant" on all such occasions with more vigilance than we have done._